Last
Art Show:Teddy's
"JetPort" Café Art Gallery @ The Four Points Sheraton
- directions/
Changing show runs April 5th through September 30th 2006/ Hors d'oeure's,
wine & live musical entertainment on April 5th. Meet Dr. Weber again
& the other artists who are auctioning
their artwork for the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospitals
MS Wellness Program on July 12th, both openings on a Wednesday night,
6-8pm. Bring your friends! Dr. Weber and the other artists from July
12th on are also donating a percentage of their proceeds to the MS Wellness
Program. Dr. Weber will also be signing 3 new Books
through the gallery - not yet in stores! / Also, learn about Ziggy
& Trainers.
You will have fun!

Here's
a fun example of The Lorenz Chaos Butterfly.
Click in the window (below) to start a particle in motion around two
strange attractors. Click again near to where you clicked the first
time. You should see a new particle following the first very closely
for a while, but as time goes on the small difference between the
paths of the particles increases until they are following completely
non-related paths. The Lorenz butterfly illustrates the concept of
"sensitive dependence upon initial conditions." The small
difference in initial conditions ultimately has a large impact on
the paths of each particle. The Lorenz butterfly may be used as an
analogy to multiple sclerosis. What makes multiple sclerosis so unpredictable?
Does God play dice with multiple sclerosis? Might small differences
in lifestyle and attitude (either positively or negatively) by people
with MS and their loved ones produce wildly different hurricane like
results? Consider below:

Our
model is the Butterfly.
God may not play dice,
but He knows we do.Brett
Weber

There
is a theory in math called the Butterfly
Effect. It suggests that a butterfly flapping it's wings in some far
off place can cause a tornado or even a hurricane on the other side of
the world. If a butterfly can flap it's wings and cause a hurricane thousands
of miles away, what might we effect? Conservatively, more than we might
otherwise predict. Help
us find the CURE for MS today. After that, visit the complexity
exihibit hosted by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA and gain
some complexity.

Butterflies
to Hurricanes!
There are a wide range of physical symptoms that may come and go unpredictably
over time with MS. The disease causes damage within the central nervous
system along nerve pathways affecting movement, speech, vision, hearing,
and bladder & bowel control. What is not commonly recognized is that
the disease can also directly interfere with a person's ability to think
clearly. Damage within the brain can create changes that affect problem-solving,
attention, learning and memory. Dr. Weber believes that just as physical
therapy can help people with MS maintain as much physical ability as possible,
mental therapies that encourage problem-solving, attention, learning and
memory skills may help people with MS maintain as much cognitive ability
as possible. Strategies such as art & music therapies,
and other positive challenging creative outlets may help maintain and
improve partially impaired cognitive pathways within the brain, and may
enhance an individual's self-worth and natural coping skills against depression
and perhaps fatigue. As the butterfly model suggests, small changes in
lifestyle, can have enormous outcomes. Enjoy your visit.

Dr.
Brett Curtis Weber & Helper Dog "Sophia"
demonstrating the iBot
Mobility System
while painting "Spring." Tryptic "Mirror" behind.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at work in
his studio. His fancy wheelchair was considered modern at the time!

As
of June 7, 2006, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Lone Star Chapter's
BP MS 150 Bike Tour raised a record breaking $10.7 million making it the
most successful MS 150 Bike Tour in Society history and setting the new
national record!

Solo
Debut held in Manhattan to Raise Public Awareness about Primary Progressive
& Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. Sixty percent of the artist's
proceeds will be donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Forty
percent will go to Dr. Weber's own scholarly research into Multiple Sclerosis,
future art shows and paintings.

In
March, Dr. Weber and his family traveled from Allentown, Pennsylvania
to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York City to be
interviewed for the "FaceofMS.org"
website. The site, created in honor of theNational
Multiple Sclerosis Society's 60th
anniversary, includes video clips and interviews with 60 people whose
lives have been impacted by MS - whether directly by the disease,
or indirectly in their roles as caregivers, researchers, friends and
relatives. The site went "live" on March 12th. On that day,
images from the site - including
Dr. Weber's- were projected onto
the walls of the NASDAQbuilding
on Time Square in New York City. His image also appears as part of
a national series of billboards, taxi media, bus shelter cards and
mall displays all aimed at bringing national awareness to the MS Society's
FaceofMS.org
Campaign (sample
1&sample
2, sample
3).If you know someone whose life
has been touched by MS in some way, please tell them about the website
and have them add their story!

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automated slow tour,
or when you
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the Quest!

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and support research into MS.
What Dr. Weber believes is called Degenerative
Myelopathy in German Shepherd Dogs. Together we have already
made an important difference. Thank you!

Make
some waves this year! Sail with Dr. Weber & Sophia and Isabel's
entire crew in the fight against multiple sclerosis. Click our CLIPPER
SHIP "Isabel" (below) and learn MORE about the Lorenz Butterfly
Effect. Give the National Multiple Sclerosis Society whatever you can
this year in the fight against multiple sclerosis and help us create
a hurricane
of good fortune! Denver
Colorado / Sept. 18, 2005

Dr.
Weber cannot walk and must use a wheelchair. Even so, he works at maintaining
his health in several important ways, and his disease process (PRMS
- which is normally not stable) has been stable for the past three years
(MRI's confirm). He is on no prescription medications, but has been using
two over the counter food supplements (DHEA
during the day since 1998 & Melatonin before bed recently). Dr. Weber
also attends an excellent MS
Wellness Program at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital (including
Physical
Therapy& Swimming)
several times a week. He attemps to lead a physically, emotionally and
spiritually positive life, nurturing healthy, active relationships, traveling
with his helper dog "Sophia,"
attending daily religious services (Mass), leading a rosary prayer group
each morning, and singing in the contemporary choir at Saint
Catharine of Siena Cathedral Church. Professionally, Dr. Weber
conducts his own scholarly
research into multiple sclerosis (MS), and is a visual artist
who enjoys computer graphic work and non-representational painting
with Sophia (his helper dog) as part of his ongoing therapies.

CreativityClass@............................................BrokenArtGallery.comClick
on theKnighted Squire to begin Audrey's
automated slow tour,
or when you
are readyJoin
the Quest!

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BELOW...

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MS Walk E- pledge

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The
remainder of Dr. Weber's time is given to public speaking-engagements
on many different topics, but always aimed at raising public
awareness about MS, his form of the disease (PRMS),
and the urgent need for creative scientific research and new
financial supporters. Creative research such as that being conducted
at the Weizmann
Institute of Science located in Rehovot, Israel, where scientists
are investigating a possible vaccineagainst MS. No laboratories in
the U.S. that Dr. Weber is aware of are considering the possibility
that a person's immune system might be modified by a vaccine
to eliminate an autoimmune disease like MS. The research focus
in the U.S. has been predominantly on expensive drug treatments
and not on the cure for MS. Dr. Weber is currently on no prescription
drug treatments because there are simply no drug treatments
shown to be safe and effective against his form of MS. Invite
Dr. Weber & Sophiato
speak or to lead a painting
session at your next event. Help us fight MS & other
diseases too. Together we have already made an important difference!